Legal Opinion
People v. Brito
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided November 6, 1997PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
—White, J.
Appeal from a judgment of the County Court of Albany County (Breslin, J.), rendered September 28, 1995, upon a verdict convicting defendant of the crime of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the seventh degree.
We affirm defendant’s conviction of the crime of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the seventh degree that arose from a consensual search of his validly stopped motor vehicle, which search revealed a quantity of cocaine that was secreted in a hidden compartment located behind the vehicle’s rear seat. In our view, the State Trooper’s knowledge that…
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